Liberal MLA Rick Doucet says despite the good news that two nursing homes in Northern New Brunswick are being replaced and another is getting more beds, building a new facility in Grand Manan should have been a top priority -- especially in the wake of eight people being transferred out due to mold problems.

He wonders how the province's validation process works given the lack of progress and suggests the 11 homes slated for revamps during the Liberal's mandate should be immediately honoured.

He adds families now have to face numerous hardships like seeing their loved ones leave the island and enduring numerous ferry trips to visit them.

NB Power says building an underground transmission line would be too costly despite complaints from West Side residents that power poles along the Fundy Coast will devalue their property and ruin their view.

The poles are being put up to power a metal shredding business at the port and residents want them underground.

NB Power spokesperson Melissa Morton tells CHSJ News underground power is seven times more expensive to install and other problems could arise like limited access to the lines during the outage.

Morton says they are currently trying to address concerns, such as installing grey poles to blend into the skyline and to position them in such a way that will not affect the view.

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A jury convicting 63-year-old Romeo Cormier of abducting a 55-year-old Moncton woman last year and keeping her prisoner for 26 days.

Cormier pleaded not guilty to kidnapping, forcible confinement, sexual assault, assault with a weapon, robbery and uttering death threats. But a jury convicted him of all six charges. Cormier was arrested last March after a woman said she was abducted by him at knifepoint outside the Moncton mall where she worked. She said she was held against her will in his one-room basement apartment for 26 days. Cormier testified in his defence, saying the woman was an acquaintance who wanted to be with him and plotted with him to kill her husband.

Kylee's mom, Raylene Wallace, taking the time to remember her daughter as a special, talented young woman who had dreams to graduate and go on to university. Wallace says the 2 and a half year sentence could never add up to the devastation her family's been through.

She says it's good to have this part behind them but, without Kylee it will never be over for them.

Wallace sobbing through her victim impact statement as she told the court about the night of the accident. She says she can't get the image out of her head of her daughter stuck under that car, and how scared she must have been.

20-year-old Nicholas Pike will spend two and a half years in a federal penitentiary for his involvement in a car accident on Hillcrest Road that claimed the life of 15-year-old Kylee Wallace last June.

Pike found guilty of dangerous driving causing death after the car he was driving rolled over a steep embankment. Wallace died when she was thrown from the back of the car and pinned underneath the vehicle.

Reports say Pike was driving a minimum of 80 kilometres an hour when the car left the road, despite a speed limit of 50. The judge says he was also ignoring the weather conditions, which were wet and foggy.